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A Nice Indian Boy’: Why Levantine Films Believes the Queer Indie Rom-Com Has the Potential to Pop in Theaters

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By Matt Minton According To The variety Levantine Films is betting on the queer rom-com “A Nice Indian Boy” with a theatrical release — a show of confidence in an era where rom-coms are often relegated to streaming platforms. The film stars “Deadpool” actor Karan Soni as an Indian man who brings his white-orphan-artist boyfriend (played by Tony and Grammy winner Jonathan Groff) home to his traditional family. When Levantine Films CEO Benjamin Hung first read Madhuri Shekar’s play, on which the film is based, he recognized that the story was “less about coming out” and more about the process of crossing cultures. “Ideally, we’re looking for projects that are very uplifting and give people hope,” Hung tells Variety about what appealed enough to make a movie. Levant...

Apr62025 by cineverseNo Comments

Tron: Ares’ Trailer: Rogue Programs Race Light Cycles Through the City in First Look at Disney’s Sci-Fi Sequel

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By Jordan Moreau According To The variety Tron” is back, more than 40 years after the original sci-fi movie hit theaters. Disney has released the first trailer for “Tron: Ares,” the third film in the “Tron” franchise after the 1982 original and the 2010 sequel “Tron: Legacy.” Jared Leto leads the film, which includes original star Jeff Bridges back as Kevin Flynn. Leto plays Ares, one of the programs from the digital universe who is tasked to enter the real world. The cast also includes Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, Sarah Desjardins, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro and Gillian Anderson. Notably, Peters plays Julian Dillinger, who shares a last name with David Warner’s Ed Dillinger, the villain from the first film. The trailer gives us ...

Apr62025 by cineverseNo Comments

Box Office: ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Builds Big With $58 Million Opening Day — Largest of 2025

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By J. Kim Murphy According To The variety After more than a decade in development, “A Minecraft Movie” has dug deep and struck box office diamonds. Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment‘s long-gestating video game adaptation notched a stellar $58 million across Friday and preview screenings from 4,263 North American venues — blasting past “Captain America: Brave New World” ($40.9 million) to land the biggest opening day figure of 2025 so far. In fact, it’s the largest since the record-breaking “Deadpool & Wolverine” launch back in July 2024. It’s a huge start that puts “A Minecraft Movie” on pace to jockey far ahead of its initial projections, which had forecast a domestic opening weekend of $70 million to $80 million. A three-day debut in the nine-dig...

Apr52025 by cineverseNo Comments

How Sebastian Stan Finally Brought Hollywood to His Homeland With Romanian Festival Hopeful ‘A River’s Gaze’

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By Matt Donnelly According To The variety It’s hard to imagine Sebastian Stan fighting for any part in Hollywood. The Academy Award nominee has proven he’s as bankable in high-brow indies like “The Apprentice” and “A Different Man” as he is in soaring commercial fare like his continuing role as Marvel’s Bucky Barnes (next appearing in “Thunderbolts”). But a cinematic homecoming that has eluded him over his career. Born in Constanța, Romania, Stan has been trying to find a way to bring his day job back to his birth country and highlight talent in the region. Stan told Variety that’s been looking for the right Romanian script to act in for the for the better part of 15 years. Now, he’s found a way to represent behind the camera as a producer on “A River’s Gaze,” ...

Apr52025 by cineverseNo Comments

Robert McGinnis, Creator of Iconic James Bond Posters, Dies at 99

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By Pat Saperstein According To The variety Painter and illustrator Robert E. McGinnis, who created sexy posters for the James Bond franchise as well as numerous other films, magazine illustrations and book covers, died March 10 in Old Greenwich, Conn. He was 99. McGinnis, whose death was posted on Legacy.com, was known for his swinging sixties pin-up girl-style images of bikini-clad women consorting with manly men. Models including Shere Hite, author of “The Hite Report,” modeled for the idealized figure that became known as “The McGinnis Woman.” His first movie poster was for “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” featuring the illustration of Audrey Hepburn smoking a cigarette in a long holder with her cat wrapped around her neck. He used his wife and family cat as models. “You didn’t h...

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Paul Schrader Accused of Sexually Harassing Assistant and Reneging on Settlement

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By Gene Maddaus According To The variety Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has been accused in a legal filing of sexually harassing his former assistant, and of backing out of an agreement to pay her a settlement. The 26-year-old woman, identified only as Jane Doe, alleges that Schrader grabbed her and kissed her against her will while they were at the Cannes Film Festival last year for the premiere of his latest film, “Oh, Canada.” She protested and was able to free herself and flee the room, she alleges. Three days later, she alleges that Schrader, 78, summoned her to his hotel room, claiming that he was “dying,” and then exposed his penis to her. The woman’s attorneys allege that Schrader’s lawyers agreed to a monetary settlement...

Mar172025 by cineverseNo Comments

Hong Kong Veteran Stanley Kwan Backs Rotterdam Winner Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s ‘A Stranger at My Door’

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Hong Kong veteran filmmaker Stanley Kwan Kam-pang has thrown his weight behind “A Stranger at My Door,” the sophomore fiction feature from director Zheng Lu Xinyuan. The film is selected for the Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), the project market that operates concurrently with Hong Kong FilMart. The drama, which carries a budget of $1.1 million, explores themes of trauma and healing through the story of Lee, an amateur film director working on a project about her late mother’s sexual abuse while navigating the end of a long-term relationship. The film, set to be shot in Putonghua and English, follows Lee as she finds solace in Clément, a French composer, while dealing with the haunting presence of her ...